2nd & 3rd Periods

Current Unit

Unit 1: Divided We Fall

Essential Question: Why do we feel the need to belong?

Genre Focus: Fiction

StudySync Unit 1 Readings:

• Marigolds

• The Necklace

• Metamorphoses

• Braving the Wilderness

• St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

• Sure You Can Ask Me a Personal Question

• Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir

• Why I Lied to Everyone in High School About Knowing Karate 

• Welcome to America

• I Have a Dream

• The Future in My Arms 

StudySync Unit 1 Skills:

• Annotation

• Context Clues

• Reading Comprehension

• Text Dependent Responses

• Textual Evidence

• Character

• Collaborative Conversations

• Short Constructed Responses

• Peer Review

• Content Vocabulary

• Recognizing Genre: Fiction

• Academic Vocabulary

• Theme

• Compare and Contrast

• Allusion

• Language, Style, and Audience

• Primary and Secondary Sources

• Arguments and Claims

• Rhetoric

• Timed Writing

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